Sossnitz, Joseph. Sechok Ha-Schach [“The Game of Chess.”]

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(CHESS)

Place

Vilna

Publication

1879

Description

FIRST EDITION. With chess diagrams

summary

Containing both instructions and master games, this is one of the earliest practical chess manuals in Hebrew. The grand-master Akiva Rubinstein is said to have gained the rudiments of chess from this book. See V. Keats, Chess Among the Jews (London, unpublished)

ff. 8, 102, (1). Usual browning, previous owner’s stamps. Original pictorial boards, rubbed. 8vo

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